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Top Picks
Venn Diagram Generator
Online Venn diagrams for up to 4 lists, SVG/PNG export
Text Diff & Review
Compare two texts side by side; accept or reject each change and export the merged result
OmniNotation
Chrome extension for highlighting, sticky notes and bookmark management in the native side panel — your data stays on your machine
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Academic Search
Google Scholar
Google Scholar paper search
PubMed
Biomedical literature database
Web of Science
Authoritative citation index
Scopus
Elsevier abstract & citation database
ScienceDirect
Elsevier full-text journal library
SpringerLink
Springer academic full-text library
Wiley Online
Wiley academic database
IEEE Xplore
Electrical & electronics engineering literature
arXiv
Open preprint repository
SSRN
Social science & humanities preprints
Semantic Scholar
AI-powered academic search
CORE
World's largest open-access full-text aggregator
Unpaywall
Finds legal free versions of paywalled papers
Google Books
Full-text search across the world's books
WorldCat
Global library union catalogue
CALIS
Union catalogue of Chinese libraries
NLC
National Library of China
Douban Books
Chinese book database with reviews
Project Gutenberg
Public-domain classic e-books
Standard Ebooks
Public-domain e-books, carefully typeset
Open Library
Lendable online library
Internet Archive
Wayback Machine & digital archive
CTEXT
Chinese classics database
Qidian
Chinese web-novel platform
Publications Data Center
Book CIP cataloguing & publication metadata lookup
bioRxiv
Life-science preprints — stake your priority before submitting
medRxiv
Health-science preprints, same platform as bioRxiv
Journal Finder
Elsevier's journal matcher: title & abstract in, candidates out
JANE
Paste an abstract, get suggested journals and similar papers
SHERPA RoMEO
Check a journal's open-access and self-archiving policy
Think.Check.Submit
Pre-submission checklist to spot predatory journals and fake conferences
LetPub
SCI journal quartiles and impact factors, in Chinese
Retraction Watch
Tracks retractions and research misconduct
PubPeer
Post-publication peer review — check for concerns before you cite
Overleaf
Collaborative online LaTeX writing
Grammarly
Real-time English grammar and spelling checker
DeepL Write
English rewriting with phrasing and tone suggestions
Author Aid
Writing and submission guidance for non-native English speakers
protocols.io
Open protocol platform with interactive, citable steps
Bio-protocol
Peer-reviewed life-science protocols
JoVE
Video protocols, filmed step by step at the bench
CSH Protocols
Cold Spring Harbor's classic lab methods
Springer Protocols
Springer's protocol collection for molecular biology
Science Exchange
Outsource experiments to certified labs
ORCID
The persistent ID for researchers — used across submissions and grants
Google Scholar Profile
Personal profile that tracks citations and your h-index
Web of Science ResearcherID
Author records and citation tracking, linkable to ORCID
Publons
Log your peer-review and editorial work; feeds into your WoS profile
Scopus Author Profile
Look up a Scopus author profile and output by name
Kudos
Add a plain-language summary to your paper and share it
Mendeley
Reference manager & researcher network
Conference Alerts
Subscribe to calls for papers by subject
MyHuiban
Academic conference and deadline calendar, in Chinese
EasyChair CFP
Search calls for papers by keyword — and a common submission system
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Data Analysis
NCBI
Genes, sequences & biomedical records
BLAST
Online sequence alignment
Ensembl
Vertebrate genome browser
UCSC Genome Browser
Genome annotation browser
STRING
Protein-protein interaction networks
GEPIA
Gene expression & survival analysis
DAVID
Functional enrichment analysis
Enrichr
Gene set enrichment analysis
cBioPortal
Cancer genomic data explorer
GeneCards
Comprehensive gene annotation database
Venn Diagram Generator
Online Venn diagrams for up to 4 lists, SVG/PNG export
Biostars
Bioinformatics Q&A community
UniProt
Authoritative protein sequence & annotation database
RCSB PDB
Protein 3D structure database
PRIDE
EBI proteomics data repository
EMBL-EBI
European Bioinformatics Institute portal
Human Protein Atlas
Human protein expression & localization maps
Gene Ontology
Standard functional annotation of genes
KEGG
Pathway & genome knowledge base
Reactome
Curated pathway knowledgebase
Metascape
Gene-list enrichment & analysis platform
Wiki-Pi
Annotated protein-interaction knowledgebase
Graphing Calculator
Desmos-style online grapher: type expressions, drag sliders, explore polar plots and inequality regions — all in your browser
Wolfram Alpha
Computational knowledge engine
GeoGebra
Dynamic mathematics lab
Kaggle
Data science competitions & datasets
Google Dataset Search
Dataset search for research
Data Commons
Cross-topic global statistics & economic data
ScienceDB
Chinese scientific data repository with DOIs
Our World in Data
Data on global development
NBS
Official Chinese statistics
MassCalc · Formula & MS Toolkit
Monoisotopic and average mass, natural isotope distributions, MF finder from m/z, peptide / oligonucleotide fragment tables, amino acid composition average m/z and polymer oligomer lists — all computed locally in the browser
ProteinCut · Peptide Digest Masses
Theoretical mass of every peptide from an in-silico protein digest, with cleavage rules identical to ExPASy PeptideMass — 25 enzymes/reagents, cysteine alkylation, methionine oxidation, 0-5 missed cleavages, seven ion forms up to 5+ charge, monoisotopic / average masses, plus intact protein mass and isoelectric point (Bjellqvist), computed locally in the browser
PepFragCalc · Peptide Fragment m/z
Theoretical a/b/c and x/y/z fragment ion m/z tables at 1+ to 3+ with -NH3 / -H2O secondary ions — global modification rules applied once and multi-line batch input with a table per peptide, computed locally in the browser
GRAVYCalc · Protein Hydropathy
Batch GRAVY (grand average of hydropathy) for multi-FASTA protein sequences on the Kyte-Doolittle scale — gzip file import, ignore chars, custom separator and decimal sign, computed locally in the browser
GlycoCalc · Glycan Mass Calculator
Monoisotopic / average mass and elemental composition of glycans and glycopeptides: underivatized, permethylated, 2-AA and 2-AB labelled forms plus 52 ESI adduct m/z values — modelled on the NIST Glyco Mass Calculator, computed locally in the browser
SDS-PAGE-Calc · Gel Recipe Calculator
Polyacrylamide gel recipes for SDS-PAGE: enter the gel count and the separating / stacking percentages and get ddH2O, 30% or 40% acrylamide stock, 1.5 M Tris pH 8.8 and 0.5 M Tris pH 6.8, 10% SDS, 10% APS and TEMED in ml and µl, plus a copyable six-step protocol — modelled on cytographica.com/lab/acryl2.html, computed locally in the browser
PrimerCalc · Primer Tm Calculator
Melting temperature of PCR primers and oligos by the nearest-neighbor method (SantaLucia 1998 unified parameters) with adjustable Na+ salt and primer concentration, plus GC%, GC clamp, Wallace/Wetmur references, 3'-end self-complementarity, hairpin and homopolymer design warnings — batch paste, computed locally in the browser
SolutionCalc · Solution & Buffer Calculator
Three bench calculations on one page: solve any blank of C1V1=C2V2 dilutions, interconvert molar mass / concentration / mass / volume (m=C·V·MW), and get buffer pH recipes from Henderson-Hasselbalch - mix two equimolar stocks or weigh the solid and titrate with HCl/NaOH - with pKa and MW data for 18 common buffers, computed locally in the browser
MDCalc
Medical formula calculator library
PubChem
NIH database of chemical substances & bioactivity
Zotero
Open-source reference manager
Elicit
AI literature review assistant
Consensus
AI search for scientific consensus
Connected Papers
Literature connection graphs
Research Rabbit
Literature tracking & citation graphs
ResearchGate
Social network for researchers
Muchong
Graduate & research exchange community
Citation Generator
Enter authors, title, container, year, volume/issue/pages and DOI to instantly format a reference in seven styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, GB/T 7714) for eight source types (journal, book, web, conference, thesis, chapter, report, newspaper) - look up metadata by DOI/ISBN, get in-text citations, build an auto-sorting multi-reference list and batch-export BibTeX/RIS, or paste an existing reference to detect its style; mostly in your browser
R
Open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics — the lingua franca of academic statistics
CRAN
R's official package repository: 20,000+ extensions for statistics and plotting
Posit (formerly RStudio)
Home of the RStudio IDE and Quarto — the working environment for data analysis
Bioconductor
R package ecosystem for bioinformatics: differential expression, enrichment and omics visualisation
The R Graph Gallery
Hundreds of R plotting examples with full code, sorted by chart type and purpose
ggplot2
R's dominant plotting system — publication-grade charts through a grammar of graphics
GraphPad Prism
The commercial standard for biomedical statistics and figures, with a point-and-click workflow
OriginLab
Data analysis and publication-quality scientific graphing, widely used in the physical sciences
JASP
Free and open-source statistics with an SPSS-style interface and built-in Bayesian analysis
jamovi
Free and open-source statistics — migrating from SPSS costs almost no learning time
Cross Validated
Statistics Q&A community; search here before asking about methodology
Statistics by Jim
A teaching site that explains statistical concepts plainly — reach for it when p-values or test choice confuse you
Statology
Tutorial library for statistics and programming, organised by what you are trying to do
Real Statistics
A complete reference for implementing statistical methods in Excel
MATLAB
Engineering and numerical computing platform with statistics and graphics toolboxes
Stata
Statistical software common in econometrics and the social sciences
pandas
The cornerstone Python library for tabular and time-series data analysis
seaborn
Statistical graphics on top of matplotlib: distribution and regression plots in a few lines
matplotlib
Python's most general plotting library — it can draw almost anything
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Online Tools
Chinese Converter
Simplified ⇄ Traditional using Wikipedia tables, with Taiwan / Hong Kong / Mainland wording
Text Diff & Review
Compare two texts side by side; accept or reject each change and export the merged result
PDF Toolkit
Merge, split, organise, convert, watermark and protect PDFs — eight tools on one page, processed locally in your browser
ImgCompress · Image Compressor
TinyPNG-style image compression: lossy PNG quantization (≤256 colors with dithering, lossless when colors fit), JPEG re-encoding and WebP conversion with before/after compare and batch ZIP download — everything stays in your browser
ImgConvert · Image Format Converter
Convert between PNG / JPEG / WEBP / BMP / GIF / SVG / AVIF / TIFF / ICO / APNG: batch up to 50 images (select several or drop a folder, results as one ZIP), quality slider, fill colour for transparent areas, rotate/flip and resize, grayscale / B&W / sepia colour modes and text watermarks — every conversion happens locally in your browser
GIF Optimizer
Shrink animated GIFs: every frame is decoded and recomposed, then frame differencing keeps only the pixels that changed, near-identical colours are merged, and palette reduction, dithering, rescaling and frame decimation are all adjustable — live before/after sizes, batch mode with ZIP export, transparency and loop count preserved, entirely in your browser
Color Blindness Simulator & Palette Checker
Colour-vision-deficiency simulation plus a figure palette check: upload a chart, heatmap or micrograph and see at once how it looks with protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, total colour blindness and in black-and-white print, with severity adjustable from 0 to 100%. The palette is extracted automatically and every pair is compared with CIEDE2000 to flag colours that blur together, alongside a ΔE00 matrix, a greyscale distinguishability check and a safety audit of 34 common colourmaps (viridis / cividis / turbo / jet / rainbow / RdYlGn and more). Based on the Machado 2009 physiological model; computed locally in the browser, nothing is uploaded
TextToSpeech · Text to Speech
Read text aloud in the browser: paste up to 2,500 characters, pick a language and voice your browser and OS actually provide, tune rate, pitch and volume, long text is chunked automatically with pause / resume / stop — modelled on crikk.com/text-to-speech, synthesis runs on your device
SpeechToText · Browser Dictation
Voice typing in the browser: press Start and speak — text appears at the caret in real time, say "period", "comma" or "new line" to insert punctuation, with continuous dictation, auto-save and txt / Word export. Modelled on speechnotes.co; recognition runs inside your browser and audio is never uploaded
IP Location Lookup
Geolocation, ISP & ASN for any IPv4/IPv6 address; shows your own IP on open
remove.bg
AI background removal in one click
Squoosh
Open-source image compression by Google: compare WebP, AVIF and MozJPEG side by side with a live quality slider — drag a photo in, everything runs locally
Convertio
Universal file format conversion
ChartLiao
QR code generator & decoder
Temp Mail
Disposable inbox for verification codes
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AI Tools
Midjourney
Top-tier AI image generation
Suno
AI song generation in one click
Gamma
AI decks, docs & presentations
Metaso
Ad-free academic AI search
Jimeng
ByteDance AI image & video creation
Hailuo AI
MiniMax video generation
Runway
AI video generation and editing: text-to-video, image-to-video and camera moves, a film-grade post-production toolkit
Synthesia
AI avatar videos: multilingual voice-over with lip sync, for batch-producing course and training videos
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Grant Funding
NIH RePORTER
NIH-funded project & grant search
Grants.gov
Unified US federal grants portal
Grantome
Global research funding opportunity search
US NSF
US National Science Foundation
EU Funding & Tenders Portal
EU Horizon Europe funding & tenders
CORDIS
EU-funded research results database
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust biomedical funding
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Learning Resources
Coursera
Online courses from world universities
edX
Course platform founded by MIT & Harvard
Udemy
Global skills course marketplace
MIT OpenCourseWare
Free MIT course materials
Khan Academy
Free general education for everyone
Chemistry LibreTexts
Open chemistry textbooks & course materials
NetEase Open Courses
University lectures with Chinese subtitles
China University MOOC
National-level courses from top universities
XuetangX
MOOC platform started at Tsinghua
Zhihuishu
Credit courses for Chinese universities
CHSI YZ
Official postgraduate entrance exam portal
Kaoyan
Postgraduate exam news & experience forum
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Language & Literature
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Shopping
Sigma-Aldrich
Merck's reagent & chemical supplier
Thermo Fisher
Instruments, reagents & consumables
Aladdin
Chinese research reagent supplier
X-Reagent
Reagent & instrument marketplace
CAS Mart
Research procurement platform
Macklin
Chinese chemical reagent brand
Beyotime
Leading Chinese bio-assay reagent brand
Servicebio
Histology & lab testing services
GenePharma
siRNA reagents & gene synthesis
GenScript
Peptide synthesis & gene services
Sino Biological
Recombinant proteins & antibodies
NEB
Molecular biology enzymes & restriction enzymes
Vector Laboratories
Glycobiology & labelling reagents
J&K Scientific
Chemical reagents & materials supplier
UNIV Biotech
Antibody & life-science reagent distributor
TCI
Tokyo Chemical Industry reagents
ChemicalBook
Chemical property & supplier directory
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Design & Templates
Unicode Emoji Table
All 3781 emoji of Unicode 16.0 with codepoints, UTF-8 bytes, HTML entities and names; search by name or codepoint and copy in one click
ASCII Art Generator
Turn text into block-letter banners from a built-in 5x7 font, and any image into ASCII art with three character ramps and a 20-200 character width
iconfont
Alibaba's vector icon library
Google Fonts
The world's largest free font library
Font Awesome
Classic icon font library
IconPark
ByteDance open-source icon set
Maoken
Free commercial-use Chinese fonts
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Developer Resources
Appinn
Curated reviews of free Windows, Android and macOS utilities — a reliable place to hunt for lab and research software
URL Encoder / Decoder
Online percent-encoding tool: standard mode (encodeURIComponent, RFC 3986) and form mode (application/x-www-form-urlencoded, space becomes +) convert as you type, with character/UTF-8 byte stats, an escape map and local history — 100% in-browser, nothing is uploaded
Regex Lab
Online regex tester like RegExr: real-time highlighted matches, group details, $1 replacement preview, syntax cheat sheet and step-by-step explanation
Unit Converter
14 categories and 212 units — length, area, volume, mass, time, speed, temperature, pressure, power, energy, data (GB vs GiB), fuel economy, angle and number bases; converts as you type, factors taken from their definitions
Loan Calculator
Four loan tools on one page: a loan calculator (equal-installment / equal-principal payments with a month-by-month schedule you can export to CSV), a mortgage calculator (commercial / housing-fund / combined loans), a mortgage prepayment estimator (pay off in full, shorten the term or lower the payment, see interest saved), and an installment-fee calculator with the real APR by IRR — all computed locally in your browser
Income Tax & Social Insurance Calculator
China's individual income tax by the cumulative-withholding method (this-period and annual tax, take-home pay, average rate, seven-bracket rate table, special additional deductions) plus a five-insurances-one-fund breakdown of employee/employer contributions, net pay before tax and total employer cost — all computed locally in your browser
ID Card Lookup
Enter an 18-digit mainland resident ID number and read out the registered region, birth date, gender, exact age, constellation and zodiac animal, with the GB 11643 MOD 11-2 check digit re-derived - colour-coded card diagram, parsed entirely in your browser, the number is never stored or sent
Birth Tools
Enter the birth date and time once at the top and one screen computes everything together: a full birthday read-out (lunar date, solar terms, animal, constellation, exact and nominal age, life number, year-pillar sound element), a rule-accurate BaZi four-pillar chart (LiChun year boundary, solar-term months, optional 23:00 day switch) with hidden stems, sound elements, ten gods and the five-element tally, plus animal-to-years lookup, benming years and zodiac matching — live as you type, entirely in your browser
Cron Expression Generator
Build cron expressions online: presets for every minute / hour / day / week / month, plus custom fields supporting *, step values */n, ranges a-b and lists, validated as you type with a live preview of the next 10 runs in your local time zone, one-click copy, pure client-side calculation
JSON.cn
JSON formatter & validator
Can I use
Browser compatibility tables
Excalidraw
Hand-drawn style whiteboard
Shields.io
Badges for open-source projects
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Webmaster Tools
Google Analytics
Site-wide traffic & conversion stats
Google Search Console
Indexing status & search traffic
Google Tag Manager
Centralize analytics & marketing tags
Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing indexing & site map tools
Yandex Webmaster
Yandex webmaster tools
Baidu Search Resources
Submit pages & verify ownership
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Content Creation
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Video & Music
Spotify
Global music streaming
Apple Music
Apple music streaming
KuGou
Long-standing Chinese music platform
NetEase Cloud Music
Music community with comments
Ximalaya
Audiobooks, podcasts & audio platform
MissEvan
Audio dramas & voice content
Qingting FM
Online radio & podcasts
radio.garden
Listen to live radio around the world
Noisli
Ambient noise mixer for focus
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Finance & Markets
SSE Closing Statistics
Official end-of-day turnover & trading stats
Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Official quotes, filings & monthly statistics
CNINFO
Statutory disclosure site for listed companies
East Money Data
Top-trader lists, northbound flow & lockup expiries
People's Bank of China
Monetary policy, financial statistics & rate notices
Tianyancha
Company registry, legal & equity information
Cailian Press
Real-time wires for A-shares & global markets
Wall Street CN
Global markets & macro news, in Chinese
Jin10
24/7 macro newswire & economic calendar
Yicai
Business & policy coverage from the TV network
Caixin
Investigations & macro business news (paywalled)
Gelonghui
HK & US equities with a reader community
Sina Finance
Finance channel of the Sina portal
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Everyday Services
Science Careers
Postdoc job board run by Science
Nature Careers
Academic jobs & career advice from Nature
jobs.ac.uk
UK university & research job board
EURAXESS
EU researcher jobs & mobility support
Academic Positions
European academic & research vacancies
China Postdoc
Chinese postdoc portal: enrollment, funding
Car Insurance Calculator
Estimate auto insurance premiums for seven coverage lines — compulsory traffic liability, third-party liability, vehicle damage (theft, fire, glass and the deductible waiver have been folded into it since the 2020 reform), occupant liability, scratch, out-of-list medical expenses and vehicle and vessel tax — priced with the current compulsory-insurance float (five region tiers A-E) and industry baseline rates, instantly and entirely in your browser
Litigation Fee Calculator
Court filing fees per China's Measures on Payment of Litigation Fees: tiered quick formulas for property and other cases, plus execution application fees, preservation fees, payment orders, public summons and setting-aside applications, with a rate lookup table
Perpetual Calendar
Gregorian–lunar month-by-month calendar with the 24 solar terms, holidays and workday flags, traditional almanac notes and auspicious-hour tables, plus Gregorian/lunar conversion
World Time Difference
Live side-by-side clocks for any two cities with automatic daylight-saving handling, cross-time-zone conversion and a world-city clock wall